Royalty Free Music Blog

Royalty Free Music Blog

At SmartSound we know the importance of keeping the message and impact of your videos fresh. A musical perspective that’s on trend can help communicate to your audience that the theme of your video remains timely and part of the larger context of the world in which we live.

Disco, disco, yeah yeah yeah! Get your funky 70s groove on with these tracks. Not only do they appeal to the boomer generation, they’ll reach out to younger audiences as well since the “return of Disco” in the late 90s. Check out just a few of the tracks available in the SmartSound Royalty-Free Music library!

Kickstart the New Year with some basic tips on storytelling. You can read them in all their glory over at Gizmodo And while the advice barely scratches topics of plot, story arc or pacing, Pixar’s 22 Rules do a fantastic job relaying the kind of content they want to see in their scripts - which is good advice for anyone writing character-driven fiction

Inspirationalsports music is a common need for a lot of videographers, whether for kids’ home games or Best Fails compilations. SmartSound offers many options when searching for royalty-free music to accompany video scenes, ranging from songs of tragic defeat, triumphant underdog victories, to just plain fun.

Atmospheric, ethereal, haunting backdrops all underpinned by hypnotic percussive grooves. This uniquely flexible album gives you two completely different paths for music construction using SmartSound’s Mood Mapping technology

We’ve written a lot about different styles available from SmartSound’s thousands of royalty-free music tracks, but one category that is hard to find is Background Comical Music. Yet there are a lot of videographers making witty, funny videos who might like a broad selection of background music that will keep and enhance the comic feel of their work. The wrong track can easily spoil what might otherwise be a comic masterpiece, if only the audience could connect with it the way the producers intended. Using SmartSound’s Free Music Search, however, it’s easy to find and select just the right track for any comedy.

There are many cinematic-themed scores and albums available from SmartSound’s thousands of royalty-free music tracks, but the New Music Search lets videographers get more granular. If, for example, a producer needs cinematic background tracks and wants to review only those with guitars, it’s easy. Search for “cinematic guitar” and pages of results come up. A mention of just a few will show the amazing variety of styles available even within that narrow focus.

Business-friendly tracks are abundant in SmartSound’s thousands of royalty-free music offerings. In fact, producers can refine even further, adding filters such as “Narrative/Spoken Word” to locate music that is specifically tailored to the task at hand. This makes it easy to find project music that will not harm a business brand and image.

SouthernBlues Music is a staple of many types of video as well as video games. With tremendous variety in beat, tempo, and even instrumentation, this broad category can fill many roles. Ranging from slow and soulful to fast and rockin’, just about any scene can benefit from the pure emotion shown in these tracks.